Scrum down: a software engineer and a sociologist explore the implementation of an agile method

ABSTRACT

This paper provides an overview and position statement on the work undertaken as part of a project to explore the implementation of Scrum in the context of an interactive digital media software development company. The project is being undertaken in the Communication and Computing Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.9 Management

General Terms:
Human Factors, Management

Keywords:
discourse, ethnography, ethnomethodology, phenomenology, scrum, sociology